[jackbenimble]

Or is it just the result of the "stand in one spot and don't move" policy, leading to less apprehensions because...no effort is being made to apprehend anyone?

Were there not specific orders from On High in the Border Patrol shortly after the Minuteman event last spring to deliberately keep apprehensions low? As I recall, those orders were issued to demonstrate that the Minutemen were not effective and that the drop in apprehensions had nothing to do with them.

And now we are supposed to believe these statistics as if they mean something?

[Ajnin]

Those orders were supposedly issued in Tuscon Sector not in El Centro. Illegal crossings in El Centro, as the artcle states have decreased.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Were there not specific orders from On High in the Border Patrol shortly after the Minuteman event last spring to deliberately keep apprehensions low? As I recall, those orders were issued to demonstrate that the Minutemen were not effective and that the drop in apprehensions had nothing to do with them. "

If the next terrorist attack comes from someone who came across the border, the Democrats will finally have the smoking gun they've tried to make every situation into to impeach President Bush.

And I, regrettably, will have to agree with them for once.